sys.sysfiles (Transact-SQL)

This SQL Server 2000 system table is included as a view for backward compatibility. We recommend that you use the current SQL Server system views instead. To find the equivalent system view or views, see Mapping SQL Server 2000 System Tables to SQL Server 2005 System Views. This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature.

Column name

Data type

Description

fileid

smallint

File identification number unique for each database.

groupid

smallint

File group identification number.

size

int

Size of the file, in 8-KB pages.

maxsize

int

Maximum file size, in 8-KB pages.

0 = No growth.

-1 = File will grow until the disk is full.

268435456 = Log file will grow to a maximum size of 2 TB.

Note

Databases that are upgraded with an unlimited log file size will report -1 for the maximum size of the log file.

growth

int

Growth size of the database. Can be either the number of pages or the percentage of file size, depending on value of status.

0 = No growth.

status

int

Status bits for the growth value in either megabytes (MB) or kilobytes (KB).

0x2 = Disk file.

0x40 = Log file.

0x100000 = Growth. This value is a percentage and not the number of pages.